Union pushes for back pay for teachers

Feb. 13, 2013

Written by

Dance Aoki
Pacific Daily News

The teachers' union is asking the Supreme Court to force the Guam Department of Education to pay teachers for an improper furlough in 2003.

Attorney Robert Kutz, representing the Guam Federation of Teachers, argued in court yesterday that the school system owes money to teachers because they weren't paid when the start of the 2003-2004 school year was moved back by two weeks.

The Civil Service Commission ordered the education agency to pay teachers for those two weeks and a Superior Court of Guam judge upheld the decision in 2006. ...